IAC: - the only exception I'll take from your post is the "OT" at the beginning.
"a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."
-- no doubt, there's a whole industry being created around these esoteric stories--I mean really, there's a long list of people touring around the country selling tickets to their seminars, posting those seminars on youtube/google, selling DVDs, books, subscriptions to website, newsletters, message boards and even cable tv is getting in on it.
To me this is significant.
Once this becomes mainstream public knowledge (next year...?), probably led by the born-again, moral majority types--and with the markets grinding everyones networth down to nothing--without money all you have left is your spirituality.
...its "probably" bullshit, but I see a trade in it.
FP........................................................